作者：Khan, BZ
摘要：Nineteenth-century laws granted wives previously withheld rights to their own properly and earnings as well as liability for debts and contracts. I use 4,198 women's patents to assess whether these laws encouraged greater female commercial activity. Patentees were motivated by potential profits and were responsive to market; incentives. Women's patenting jumped significantly in states with legal reforms and was lowest in states without such laws. Much of the subsequent increase occurred in met...
作者：Williamson, JG
摘要：There were three epochs of growth experience after the mid-nineteenth century for what is now called the OECD ''club'': the late nineteenth century, the middle years between 1914 and 1950, and the late twentieth century. The first and last epochs were ones of overall fast growth, globalization, and convergence. The middle years were ones of overall slow growth, deglobalization, and divergence, Thus history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence. When t...
